CMV, or Cytomegalovirus, is a common virus that can infect people of all ages. Once CMV is in a person’s body, it stays there for life. Most healthy adults and children will have no signs or symptoms and no long-term effects from CMV. It can, however, be very dangerous to unborn babies.

CMV is the leading infectious cause of hearing loss, it is more common than spina bifida, down syndrome, adn foetal alcohol syndrome, 1 in 150 babies are born with CMV in different stages of severity.

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